Lomboko

Lomboko was a slave fortress at the mouth of the Gallinas River in Sierra Leone. The fortress stockade was scattered across several small islands, and the area was controlled by Spanish slave merchants, chief among them Pedro Blanco. By 1839, about 2,000 slaves a year were coming out of the Gallinas River, despite the illegality of the Atlantic slave trade, and the captives aboard the Amistad were shipped off from Lomboko and treated cruelly. In 1849, the British Royal Navy destroyed the fortress after liberating the slaves.